Description: A collection of yet to be curated photographs of boats built by Hinckley for the military during WWII. 36 foot motor towing launches, powered with 125 horse-power engines, and draw five and one-half feet of water. Cummins 3370 AEL in a diamond YR00.
Description: The Kebo Valley Club Race Track is visible behind the newly constructed buildings at the Jackson Lab. Originally the site of Robin Hood Park.
Description: Bonaventure came back to Southwest Boat Corporation to have whale back put on her bow. They rebuilt the shelter for the steering station so they could see over the bow and they put on wing boards for trawl netting.
Description: "This picture is of a prototype for a production model design by Henry Hinckley to be known as the Hinckley Sport Cruiser 30 built in 1940. Production was postponed because of the war, but it is interesting to note her lines compared to the Picnic Boat. This could have been a very popular boat had it ever gone into production." -- The Hinckley Story (p.89).
Description: A collection of yet to be curated photographs of the construction of mine yawls built by the Henry R. Hinckley Company for the military during WWII. A mine yawl is a rugged utility boat. These photographs were taken between 1942 and 1944.
Description: A collection of yet to be curated photographs of the construction of picket boats built by the Henry R. Hinckley Company for the military during WWII. A picket boat is a type of small naval craft used for harbor patrol and other close inshore work. "There were two open storage sheds [in 1941] in Manset. When the Coast Guard boat contract [for picket boats] came, we had to set about immediately joining these buildings together in order to have a place to build them. These buildings are still part of the main assembly building." – The Hinckley Story, p. 30. [show more]